To ask about your food disappointments?

[HarrietKettleWasHere]

LIGHTHEARTED- I'm aware people have real problems etc etc.

So, DP and I got back late last night after a few drinks (I'd heard some very sad news about my grandma so we went to a comedy night to try and have a bit of a laugh)

We hadn't had dinner and I'd been low carbing for three weeks. We were ravenous. Absolutely CRAVING a MacDonalds (yes I know! I like it once in a while)

So we did an Uber eats thing.
We ordered: 2 Quarter pounders with cheese
2 large fries
6 chicken nuggets
1 chocolate milkshake
1 strawberry milkshake

Took bloody AGES but eventually turned up.

I unwrapped a sad, flaccid and pale chicken wrap thing with no cheese

1 portion of stone cold fries

1 Big Mac with no cheese, and no
sauce (who are these phillistines)

2 Diet Cokes

I could have cried. After living on eggs, ham and spinach all week the disappointment was very real. Just like that time I treated myself to an M&S giant scotch egg and the egg part was missing!

DP got a refund but still. Tell me about your food disappointments to cheer me up!

pastapesto Were they those really expensive fancy ones? Same thing happened to me the other day, grabbed them off the cafe counter in a hurry with toddler, went to eat them in the park and they were just balsamic flavour Why!?

Yes exactly! Balsamic flavour! I have no idea why, trust me!

lemon I think you must be mistaken. A vegan menu wouldn't use chicken stock for anything?

Niamh - I think that was the point. The risotto was no longer on the vegetarian tasting menu as it was a) not vegan and b) no longer vegetarian.

Percy Pigs

They taste of soap. yuck.

@gunsandbanjos The Wee Chippy in Anstruther knocks spots off the famous one

Fucking Domino have stopped doing their Chocolate Melt. Instead, they have substituted .............. a fucking chocolate pizza. . Why in the name of God would you want a fucking chocolate pizza as dessert after a normal pizza? You can tell I loved the Chocolate Melt and am very fucking angry.

I've just had a packet of paprika flavour crisps. They were pretty bloody disappointing.

I once spent hours making a delicious fish stock based French soup/bisque type thing. Put the colander in the sink to strain out the shells and forgot to put a saucepan under the colander to catch the soup.

I literally slaved over soup, which I then poured straight down the sink. It cost me loads too!

Local family run Italian restaurant that everyone raves about. Tables were sticky and whole place feel dirty as opposed to shabby and charming.
Massive portions of food which was rank

I cried in the shop last night because they only had own brand ketchup and not Heinz...i may be pregnant but I think that would make me cry ordinarily too!

And zizzi vegan spaghetti Bol. Grim.

DH went out to a nice ‘fancy’ restaurant for our anniversary recently, it was too loud and I had a very disappointing and overpriced seafood pasta.

He kept telling me I told you so, his suggestion had been to go to our local posh burger place...it would have been yummier.

In America you can have your McDonald's any way you want... so I removed the meat from a big tasty. Oh my god it was amazing... like a super yummy cheese salad sandwich with delicious sauce.

I ordered one here at the drivethrough... 'no meat??' Came the bewildered voice...

'Yes, no meat. No beef burger please. But everything else.'

'We're going to have to charge you the same'

'That's fine!' Salivating....

Got the bag, raced to the park for twenty kid free in car minutes with kindle and big-tasty-no-meat before school pick up.

Opened the box...

A bun.

A plain, empty, boring bun.

Bastards.

Was craving fish and chips at about 3 months pregnant, was salivating imagining golden bubbly batter with loads of salt and vinegar and scraps-we live by the coast so usually able to get some lush proper fish and chips. Anyway it was pissing it down and didn't fancy a walk along the seafront to our usual so DH suggested we drive to one further along that his parents raved about.

I wait in the car, DH brings out two HUGE boxes-I was so excited, opened up the box...and was confronted with completely flat, pale, soggy batter. I actually burst into tears! And he'd barely put any salt and vinegar on it.

A few weeks later, PILs came up with SIL and nephews-we spent the day at the coast (close to the nice chippy). MIL then suggested we drive out to awful chippy!! I had a bit of a diva fit I'm ashamed to say and we ended up going to the better chippy (luckily everyone agreed it was better!). Was so happy to finally get my fix!

I once spent hours making a delicious fish stock based French soup/bisque type thing. Put the colander in the sink to strain out the shells and forgot to put a saucepan under the colander to catch the soup.

I did this with a Keith Floyd recipe - coq au pineau. I had used the last bottle of pineau we brought from France in the marinade. I could have cried.

Probably the worst dessert I ever had was in a very fancy restaurant - pasta with chocolate sauce. Pasta is usually paired with savory sauces for a reason.

We live near the best take away in our city and twice a year find an excuse to have a treat.

Good grief, you're restrained! Twice a year?!! Not twice a week?

We went to a local expensive Spanish tapas restaurant (and there really shouldn't be such a thing) I booked far in advance so we'd get a decent table. The front is all cosy olde worlde with flickering candles. We ended up in a back room which was glaring white, tiled like a bathroom and right next to the toilets. It was like eating in a lab. And the food was ok - just ok - not anything special and TEENY. I get that tapas are small but that's cos they are usually cheap. There wasn't a dish under £13 and they were minuscule. I've never left a restaurant poorer nor hungrier. AND we had the kids - who were hoovering up these tiny plates of wallet busting meh with totally underwhelmed faces. Never again.

A couple of years ago, I made a new years resolution to try a new restaurant in the area every month. So, first week in january we head out to try a restaurant that had been recommended to us by various friends. Got there and the restaurant was closed, but the restaurant next door was open and we were hungry. I ordered Chicken in a Tarragon and Lemon sauce. This plate of beige vomit-like food turned up, I bravely tried a mouthful but it was worse than it looked!!! Have never been back to try the good restaurant...

McDonald's egg I cant eat bread and my son rejected the egg part of his breakfast they smell soooo nice and taste so rank

Caramac buttons.
Bought some today as me and youngest are off work/school with horrid chest infection.
We both love caramac bars so settled down in front of a film with a bowl of these buttons.
We both took one, put it in our mouths and sat staring at each other waiting for the lovely Caramac flavour to appear.
It didn't. All it tasted of was slightly weird, chalky milky bar.
So disappointed, it was a bag that promised much contentment and delivered nothing but sadness.

Demented totally with you on the M&S beetroot crisps. Minging.

Ordered a jacket potato with cheese to takeaway and eat at my desk once. Opened it up and they had melted the cheese...vile.

Have been to red hot buffet a few times in Manchester. Ds aged 23 asked if he could come next time, it's closed down but someone at work recommended another buffet place in manc, we all had a day out in manc during the 6week holiday youngest wanted to go to harvester but I wanted to take ds to the buffet place it was horrible! Eldest ds and myself veggie youngest ds doesn't eat much meat, there wasn't much for us to choose from despite being told there was plenty of veggie options, there wasn't even a chocolate fountain 😢 cost £50 and all youngest ate was 1 naan bread, should have gone to harvester that was kids eat for £1!

First meal after major surgery - offered soup as easy to eat and digest so looking forward to it. discovered it was chicken casserole soup and definitely tasted like it had appeared as a casserole the day before.